Word: blurbs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...FEELS always a pardonable reluctance to agree with a publisher's blurb; but it is impossible to deny the truth of the dust jacket's statement that the New Yorker publishes the best prose fiction in America and that a splendid sampling of that fiction has been brought together to make this book. A warning, at this point: the New Yorker's prose style, a unique melancholy compounded out of many samples over a period of not quite sixteen years, is not very much in evidence in this collection. The witty, nostalgic, acid manner of the "Talk of the Town...
Understatement has never been the backbone of Crazy promotion. Sample blurb: ". . . 70 to 75% of disease today can be attributed to one condition. Crazy Water remedies this common condition." Fortnight ago the Federal Trade Commission cracked down, issued a complaint against Crazy Water Co. Charged FTC: Crazy cannot help, as it claims it can, in the cure or relief of some 30 ailments of the alimentary or urinary tracts, Crazy misrepresents constipation as the cause of some 50 diseases, Crazy products do nothing more than speed the bowels...
...Medicine," as the blurb sings, "has taken R. S. to the four corners of the earth": to Serbia (typhoid epidemic), France (World War I), Russia (famine and cholera), Mexico, China. In Serbia he met a Bishop who entertained himself each morning by taking shots at an old rabbit on the hillside. He wouldn't let R. S. shoot; he was afraid R. S. might hit the rabbit. On the boat to Mexico he made friends with Hart Crane, "a generous, warmhearted person, obviously drinking hard because of intense unhappiness." R. S. loved liquor, France, poetry, music, ribald talk...